If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher read more

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher design than to enjoy his state.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes read more

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ;
And how with the longest day enjoy!
[Lat., read more

How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ;
And how with the longest day enjoy!
[Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes,
Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]